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Volume 10, Issue 2, 2000
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Language management and language problems: Part 1
Author(s): Björn H. Jernuddpp.: 193–203 (11)More LessThis paper is an introduction to language management and to the papers in this and the next volume of the Journal. It refers to contributors’ papers as the text evolves. It discusses first management of problems in discourse, then directed management with the help of a mini-case study and some examples, then surveys sources of language problems and their solutions according to a selection of functions of language. In the first volume, it brings up the communicative, symbolic, social and entertainment functions as sources of language problems. In the second volume, it continues with a discussion of the development function as a source of language problems. The paper then brings together discourse and behavior towards language in their socio-economic context in a unified restatement of the theory. The division of volumes is necessarily arbitrary, yet, each volume can be read independently of each other. This and all the papers together celebrate J. V. Neustupný’s contribution to language management.
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Conversational repair in spoken Hong Kong Cantonese
Author(s): Adrian K. Ho and Björn H. Jernuddpp.: 205–225 (21)More LessThis paper examines the process and mechanism of conversational repair in spoken Hong Kong Cantonese. Levelt calls for accounts of conversational repair from diverse languages; this paper helps test his supposition that “the organization of repair is quite invariant across languages and cultures” (1989: 497). The paper also raises the hypothesis that personal and contextual factors are crucial variables which determinewhich type of repair will be socially acceptable (and therefore prominent) in a particular conversationalsetting.
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People, cultures, and languages in contact: The drifting of Czech in the present-day flood of English
Author(s): Frantiek Danepp.: 227–238 (12)More LessAfter decades of isolation, the Czech community is now re-entering the Euro-Atlantic Community. People eagerlyaccept new things coming from the world, on the other hand, they need to square accounts with the stigmatized experienceof the past. The particular moments of this condition remarkably reflect in language, speech and communicative processes.One particular process is the English impact on Czech.
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Managing languages in conflict situation: A special reference to the implementation of the policy on Malay and English in Malaysia
Author(s): Asmah Haji Omarpp.: 239–253 (15)More LessEnglish today certainly plays a wider range of roles than before. Due to these roles and to its neutrality in not beingexclusively identified with any particular ethnic community in Malaysia, English is meant to be everyone’s languagein as much as the national language is. In real life the functions of English in Malaysia almost equal those of Malay,including the social function. This situation results from the image projected by English vis-à-vis Malay and an equaltreatment of the two languages in the implementation of the policy. The policy on the enhancement of the use of Englishhas helped to de-sensitise the feeling of the people towards English as a former colonial language, and to close theattitudinal gap between Malay and English. This pragmatism has also changed the world-view of Malaysians that only theuse of the national language would assist in nation-building
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Japanese school children in Melbourne and their language maintenance efforts
Author(s): Kuniko Yoshimitsupp.: 255–278 (24)More LessThis paper presents a case study of language maintenance efforts made by bilingual Japanese children in Melbournewhose parents are of Japanese background. The children were selected from two sub-groups in the Japanese community:the children of business sojourners (temporary residents), the largest sub-group in the community, and the children ofpermanent residents, the second largest sub-group. Focusing on the micro-level language planning for maintenance, thisstudy examines the speakers’ degree and direction of maintenance in terms of Japanese language proficiency, andit analyses the correlation between the maintenance achieved, the factors, and the strategies adopted. Two instruments havebeen developed for the assessment of speakers’ naturally occurring spoken discourse data. It is argued that thechildren’s differing residential status, being either a sojourner or permanent resident, is a key factor affecting themaintenance process and its outcomes, and that maintenance at the micro-level, specifically individual and family levels,is the result of the combined efforts of the parents and the children.
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Japanese students’ management processes and their acquisition of English academic competence during studyabroad
Author(s): Helen Marriottpp.: 279–296 (18)More LessThis paper deals with Japanese students who enroll in a postgraduate program at an Australian university. Usingthe language management model, I analyse the types of difficulties they experience in the English academic context in termsof deviations from the norm, and then examine the various types of adjustment processes through which they develop theirEnglish academic competence.
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Management of intercultural input: A case study of two Korean residents of Japan
Author(s): H. Muraokapp.: 297–311 (15)More LessIn this paper, I claim that unlike spontaneous discourse, in which language deviations tend to trigger instantevaluations and adjustments, management of intercultural input is relatively free from time restriction and thus allows re-management at each stage of deviations from norms, noting, evaluation, adjustment and implementation.
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Marriage, naming and the state
Author(s): John C. Maherpp.: 313–329 (17)More LessA name is not merely a personal identifier but an object over which state and corporate bodies regard themselvesas having the right of control. In the modern state, ideologies of citizenship, ethnocentrism, colonialism, have long entailedthe manipulation of personal names. The married change-name is, among other things, a psychological act, an imprintingby society on the (bride-bridegroom) initiate’s consciousness. A newly-coined married name encodes newinformation about the man or woman. It connotes primarily that a new social relationship has occurred. A new name isa symbol of allegiance to a new person, a new nexus of relations, a starting-over. Fufu bessei is the practicein Japan of the retention of former surnames after marriage. Retention of the surname is a ruptus in traditionalsymbolic reference, a social and psychological discontinuity. A review of global practice regarding post-marriage namingreveals no uniformity but rather variation. At the same time, there appears to be many possible reasons why an individualdecides to change or not to change. Marriage name-change/name-retention thus comprise an ideological speech-act: alinguistic expression of a form of consciousness which sustains and legitimates a state of affairs or which, conversely,indicates rejection of particular practices and institutions.
Volumes & issues
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Volume 34 (2024)
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Volume 33 (2023)
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Volume 32 (2022)
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Volume 31 (2021)
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Volume 30 (2020)
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Volume 29 (2019)
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Volume 28 (2018)
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Volume 27 (2017)
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Volume 26 (2016)
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Volume 25 (2015)
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Volume 24 (2014)
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Volume 23 (2013)
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Volume 22 (2012)
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Volume 21 (2011)
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Volume 20 (2010)
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Volume 19 (2009)
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Volume 18 (2008)
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Volume 17 (2007)
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Volume 16 (2006)
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Volume 15 (2005)
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Volume 14 (2004)
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Volume 13 (2003)
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Volume 12 (2002)
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Volume 11 (2001)
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Volume 10 (2000)
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